The most successful economies in history have been where good or at least competent governments work deliberately to support their merchants. Examples are The British Empire, The USA since WW1 until the 1970s. You might characterise these as socialist because in both cases government is active in both military power projection and diplomacy to enhance the commercial opportunities of its merchants internationally while also ensuring a strong and reliable legal system internally which enables capital markets, investment and construction of infrastructure which all combine to create wealth and prosperity greater than any anarchist 'free market' could without them. Today the most successful economy globally is China, again a mixed economy where the government both consciously directs capital and strategic assets and infrastructure development and provides a stable internal rule of law and property rights which encourage free enterprise within limits deliberately preventing parasitic rentseeking, cartels and monopolies. Today China dominates manufactured goods and commodity markets and is now challenging USA for global leadership as USA declines into a cesspit debt due to chronic trade and fiscal deficits.